James Fenimore Cooper Society -- Available Publications [revised January 2008]

Miscellaneous papers issued from time to time by the Cooper Society. Back issues are reprinted as needed. All papers in both the Reference Papers and ALA Cooper Panel Papers series can be found on-line on this website, and may be downloaded for personal use. Hard copies may be ordered as follows:

Reference papers: Reference materials and occasional hard-to-find texts concerning James Fenimore Cooper and his daughter Susan Fenimore Cooper. Individual copies can be ordered by non-members at $2.50 each, postpaid.

New members may request, free of charge, any or all of these Reference Papers. Check the appropriate box on the Membership Application Form, or list specific papers desired.
• No. 1. Upside Down -- a scene from Cooper's only Play (1/92, rpt. 8/95)
• No. 2. Index to The Chronicles of Cooperstown (1/92, rpt. 9/94, 10/99)
• No. 3. Where Was James? A James Fenimore Cooper Chronology from 1789 to 1851 (5/93, rpt. [& corrected] 1/98)
• No. 8. The Cooper Screens Detailed Inventory of the two Cooper Screens at the Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. (9/96, rpt. 2/01)
• No. 12. The Cooper Epigraphs Sources of the over 1,000 epigraphs used by the Coopers on title pages and as chapter headings. (8/99)
• No. 15. Three Stories for Children by Susan Fenimore Cooper: The Adventures of Cocquelicot (1881); The Cherry-Colored Purse (1895); The Wonderful Cookie (1879)
• No. 16. Point de Bateaux á Vapeur: Une Vision [No Steamboats: A Vision] The only story written (1832) by James Fenimore Cooper in the French language
• No. 19. The Wept of the Wish-Ton-Wish by William Bayle Bernard. A play (1831) based on Cooper's 1829 novel, The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish
• No. 22. Moravian Origins of J.F. Cooper's Indians, by Michal Peprnik, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic. A paper originally given at the 11th American Studies Colloquium, on the theme "America--Home of the Brave," Palacky University, Olomouc, on August 29-September 3, 2004, reprinted with the permission of the author.

ALA Cooper Panel Papers: Beginning in 1993, the Cooper Society has published most of the papers presented at the Cooper Panel of the annual Conference of the American Literature Association. They are distributed to the membership as issued, and can also be found on-line at this Website.

New Members may order a complete set of printed copies of back issues for $15.00. Check the appropriate box on the Membership Application Form.
• No. 4. 1993: Robert D. Madison -- Wish-Ton-Wish: Muck or Melancholy?; Patricia L. Kalayjian -- Cooper and Sedgwick: Rivalry or Respect?; Lynda B. Salomon -- "A Life in the Woods": Failure of Leadership in The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish, The Pioneers, and The Crater
• No. 5. 1994: George Bagby -- Kindred Spirits: Cooper and Thoreau; Scott Michaelsen -- The Color Line, Beavers, and the Destruction of White Identity in Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans; Wayne Franklin -- Cooper and New York's Dutch Heritage
• No. 6. 1995: Robert D. Madison -- Cooper, Bancroft and the Voorhees Court Martial; James J. Schramer -- "A Bold Strike against the Wilderness": Wyandotté and Cooper's Critique of the Jeffersonian Ideology of Domestic Production; Christina Starobin -- Reading Cooper
• No. 7. 1996: Allan M. Axelrad -- Cooper, Aristocracy, and Capitalism; David Mazel -- Shooting as Performative Speech in The Last of the Mohicans; Hugh C. MacDougall -- First and Last Tales: "Imagination" and "The Lake Gun"
• No. 9. 1997: George G. Dekker -- Border and Frontier Tourism in Guy Mannering and The Pioneers; Granville Ganter -- Battles of Rhetoric: Oratory and Identity in Cooper's Last of the Mohicans; James D. Wallace -- Cooper on Corporal Punishment
• No. 10. 1998: Barbara Mann -- Man with a Cross: Hawkeye was a "Half-Breed"; James J. Schramer -- "Union of Art and Nature": James Fenimore Cooper and American Landscape Aesthetics; Nancy C. Shour -- Heirs to the Wild and Distant Past: Landscape and Historiography in James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers
• No. 11. 1999: Susan Kalter -- The Last of the Mohicans as Contemporary Theory: James Fenimore Cooper's Philosophy of Language; Robert D. Madison -- Submission and Restoration in The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish
• No. 13. 2000: Steven Harthorn -- "Few Get as Far South as I Have Been": Stimson in James Fenimore Cooper's The Sea Lions; William Owen -- Natty Changes His Will: Legacies and Beneficiaries in The Deerslayer and The Prairie
• No. 14. 2001: Martin T. Buinicki -- 'mere articles of trade': Literary Property, Copyright, and Democracy; Steven Wolfe -- The Path to a New Environmental Consciousness in The Deerslayer; Aiping Zhang -- James Fenimore Cooper: A Rediscovered American Writer in China
• No. 17. 2002: Barbara Alice Mann -- Spirits of Sky, Spirits of Earth: The Spirituality of Chingachgook; James J. Schramer, James Fenimore Cooper and the Myth of the Citizen Soldier/Sailor; Edward Watts -- Cooper, Richardson, and the Frontiers of Nationalism
• No. 18. 2003: Lance Schachterle -- Cooper and His Collaborators: Recovering Cooper's Final Intentions for His Fiction [abstract]; Lisa West Norwood -- The Reconstruction of Reading in The Deerslayer; Nancy Sweet -- The Disobedient Daughter in Cooper's The Pioneers
• No. 20. 2004: Stephen P. Harthorn -- Truth and Consequences: James Fenimore Cooper on Scott, Columbus, Bumppo, and Professional Authorship; Christopher Lukasik -- The Invisible Aristocrat: Visualizing Character in Cooper's Early Fiction [abstract]; Lisa West Norwood, Cooper's Pacific: The Crater and Theories of History in the South Seas
• No. 21. 2005: John McWilliams -- Bragging and Dodge-ing in America, or Domestic Manners As Found; Matthew Wynn Sivils -- Bears, Culture-Crossing, and the Leatherstocking Tales; Erin M. Suzuki -- Paradise Lost: James Fenimore Cooper and the Pursuit of Empire in the American Pacific
• No. 23. 2006: Luis Iglesias -- The "keen-eyed critic of the ocean": James Fenimore Cooper's Invention of the Sea Novel; Nadesan Permaul -- James Fenimore Cooper and the American National Myth; Susan Kalter, Clothing The Prairie in Furs: The International Trade Contexts of Cooper's Western Novel [abstract]
• No. 24. 2007: Ronald John Cohessy -- Ship of State: American Identity and Maritime Nationalism in the Sea Fiction of James Fenimore Cooper; Alisa Marko Iannucci -- "Things less evident": Cosmopolitan Cooper; Barbara Alice Mann -- Aunt Jane and Father Fenimore: The Jane Austen--James Fenimore Cooper Connection

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